FVIR Program Archives

GERALD "JERRY" HILL is an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin. He is President of the Indigenous Language Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has been a member of the Indigenous Language Board of Directors since 1997. A second language speaker of Oneida,...

OFELIA RIVAS. Ofelia is an elder and activist from the Tohono O'odham Nation. She is the Founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall. She will bring us up to date on U.S./Mexico border issues and how they continue to affect her people.

XIYE BASTIDA, (Otomi-Toltec), a teenage climate activist based in New York City. She is one of the lead organizers of the “Fridays For Future” youth climate strike movement. For the first climate strike in March, 2019, Xiye mobilized 600 students from her school and has...

In the first half-hour, First Voices Radio aired an exclusive audio premiere of a new documentary, titled: “Keepers of the Pass.” The documentary covers the 2-year saga of the ordeal brought by the Rampough Lenape of New Jersey and their...

DERRICK JENSEN is a long-time grassroots environmental activist Derrick is the author of more than 25 books, including: “A Language Older Than Words,” “Endgame,” and “The Myth of Human Supremacy.” Derrick is primarily an advocate for Indigenous peoples and wild nature, and...

Tracey Osborne is Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the political ecology of climate change mitigation in tropical forests, particularly the role of Indigenous peoples, and...

Evan Pritchard (Mi’kmaq), the host of the Tribal Harmony series, is an award-winning historian and author of more than 40 books on Native American culture including “Native New Yorkers,” “Henry Hudson and the Algonquins” (both now with Chicago Review Press) and “Bird...

KENN ORPHAN is our guest for the entire hour. Kenn is an artist, writer, radical nature lover, weary but committed activist, and hospice social worker. He writes about art and culture, socio-economic injustice, geopolitical issues and the existential threats we collectively...

In the first half-hour, IAN ZABARTE is Principal Headman of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation. In 2018, he was appointed to the Licensing Support Network Advisory Review Panel of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ANDREW MILLER brings two decades of human rights activism and international field experience to his work as Amazon Watch's Washington, D.C. Advocacy Director. Since 2007, Andrew has collaborated closely with Indigenous partners from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and...

Ukumbwa Sauti is an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from Burkina Faso in West Africa. He is a diviner, numerologist, and spiritual counselor. Ukumbwa is a Producer/Partner at Moja Mediaworks, developing the World Ancestor Concert and facilitating social justice...

Martín Prechtel (Cree) is a leading thinker, writer, and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people. He is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language, and an ongoing fresh approach. In his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad’s...

Mario Murillo is a veteran community radio practitioner and currently serves as the Vice Dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication. Mario has been a guest as well as a guest host on “First Voices Radio” on many...

From December 10 through December 22, 2018, the Bogota-based international human rights organization DeJusticia hosted its Second Global Workshop for Indigenous Leaders in the Ecuadorian Amazon, specifically in the Kichwa territory of Sarayaku, on the banks...

In the first half-hour of this week’s edition of “First Voices Radio,” we feature two speakers from a panel at the COP 24 Climate Summit, a two-week conference that was held in Katowice, Poland in December 2018. (COP 24 is the acronym for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the...

Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez as his first guest of the hour. Dr. Cintli is a long-time journalist/columnist who returned after 30 years to the classroom to get his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His 2008 dissertation was on the 7,000-year history of maiz. It led to his book: “...

This week’s show features portions of a panel discussion from “The Waters Connect Us: Gathering with Those Who Work in Water Protection and Restoration,” which took place on November 14, 2018 at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. The...

In the first half-hour, we turn our focus to Brazil and the implications for the Indigenous peoples and the environment as a result of the recent election. Dr. Alan Tormaid Campbell has a Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Oxford in England....

James (Omahkohkiaaiipooyii) Craven is the guest for the full hour of this edition of “First Voices Radio.” James, who is Blackfoot, is a Vietnam-Era veteran of the U.S. Army. Now semi-retired, he was a professor of economics and geography for more than 35 years and has...

Hadrien Coumans is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Lenape Center, a Manhattan-based non-profit with the mission of continuing Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland, through Lenape arts and culture. He is an adopted member of White Turkey-Fugate family (Lenape). As an advisor for well-being and a...

Guy Reiter is Executive Director of Menikanaehkem, Inc. Menikanaehkem is a grassroots community organization based on the Menominee Reservation in northeast Wisconsin. It is an organization of people working toward the goal of community wellness. One of their initiatives...

GERALD HILL is an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin. He is President of the Indigenous Language Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has been a member of the Indigenous Language Board of Directors since 1997. A second language speaker...

Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes three guests. His first guest is Shawna Bluestar Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape and Azteca). Shawna is a spiritual guide and mentor for women, supporting them to share their unique gifts and voices. She is working with her father Steven T....

Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with returning guest Martín Prechtel (Cree). Martín is a leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people; and is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh...

Annita Lucchesi is a doctoral student and cartographer at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Annita’s dissertation work examines the ways in which maps can help us to better understand the international issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls,...

In the first half of this edition of “First Voices Radio,” Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee). Crystal is Founder, President and CEO of Echo Hawk Consulting. The mission of Echo Hawk Consulting is to help to create new platforms,...

Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez. Roberto Rodriguez is a long-time journalist/columnist who returned after 30 years to the classroom to get his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His 2008 dissertation was on the 7,000 year history of maiz. It led to...

Linda Black Elk, another returning guest. Linda is an ethnobotanist and science educator at Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota. She actively works towards food and wellness sovereignty. Linda will be talking about the Mní Wičóni Clinic and Farm, a free clinic...

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with BARBARA MANN, author of “Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America” (2016). Barbara Alice Mann, Ph.D. is Professor of Humanities in the Jesup Scott Honors College of the University of...

Tommy Orange, author of “There There.” Tommy is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of...

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Ofelia Rivas. Ofelia is an elder and activist from the Tohono O'odham Nation. She is the Founder of O’odham Rights Cultural and Environmental Justice Commission, and Founder of O’odham Voice Against the Wall...

Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back UKUMBWA SAUTI is an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from Burkina Faso in west Africa and is a diviner, numerologist and spiritual counselor. He is a Producer/partner at moja...

In the first half-hour, Glenn Aparicio Parry, Ph.D., is the author of the Nautilus award-winning book Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature (North Atlantic Books, 2015), and an educator, speaker, dialogue moderator, and...

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with two guests. In the first half-hour, Lucía Oliva Hennelly is an interdisciplinary problem solver and collaboration catalyst passionate about creating solutions at the intersections of climate...

On this edition of “First Voices Radio” Host TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE welcomes back Tonia Stands and Gregg Deal. In the first half-hour: TONIA STANDS is Founder of “No Uranium in Treaty Territory (NUITT)." She is a...

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse catches up with Ben Carnes, a Native activist and organizer from Broken Bow, Oklahoma, in the Chahta (Choctaw) Nation. Ben's passion to stand for his people arose as a teen when he began to learn the truths about the U.S. government...

In the first half-hour, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes Seneca-Cayuga documentary filmmaker Erica Tremblay. Erica is the Director of Video at the Bustle Digital Group. Her films have been featured on PBS and the Independent Film Channel...

Tiokasin Ghosthorse catches up with Ross Hamilton. Ross is the author of several books on Native American prehistory including: "The Mystery of the Serpent Mound," "A Tradition of Giants," and "Star Mounds: Legacy of a Native American Mystery." His...

TRENTON JOSEPH CASILLAS BAKEBERG and KEALA KELLY Tiokasin Ghosthorse continues to bring us reports on events occurring at Standing Rock, North Dakota and the efforts by thousands of water protectors to stop the construction of the Dakota...

Raye Zaragoza, Linda Black ElkGhosthorse continues to bring us up-to-the-minute reports on activities taking place at Standing Rock Reservation and the efforts by thousands of water protectors to stop the construction of...

In the first half-hour, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Mark Kenneth Tilsen Jr.,who has been at Standing Rock for several weeks. Mark, Oglala Lakota, is an educator and poet from Porcupine, South Dakota. In the second half-hour, Tiokasin talks with Melissa K. Nelson In the second half...

Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with legendary musician ROBBIE ROBERTSON (Cayuga/Mohawk) Roberton was the lead guitarist and primary songwriter of the musical group The Band. He talks about his life, music and his new book for young readers, "Hiawatha and the Peacemaker, which was published by Abrams in September 2015.

Guest Host Charlie Uruchima with Guests: Doris Loayza and Dr. Sergio Romero
Show Affiliates: An important note. The show experienced some fairly serious sound issues for the first 30 minutes. The right channel dropped out for the majority of the first 30 minutes during the first interview. This technical issue may have happened between broadcast and...

Guest Host CHARLIE URUCHIMA, who is sitting in for Host TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE while he is away this month. Charlie speaks with three guests " Genesis Tuyuc, a first generation Maya Kaqchikel activist in New York City and former President of the Native American and Indigenous Student Group at New York University; Santy Quinde Barrera Baidal, a writer of short stories,poems, and...

TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE goes into the vast 23-year-old program archive and selects three interviews that made an impact on audiences when they were first aired. The words of these three remarkable individuals "William Iggiagruk Hensley, Mari Boine and John Trudell "continue to resonate today. Hensley is the author of "Fifty Miles from Tomorrow"; Mari Boine is a Norwegian Sami...

ROSS HAMILTON who has been a guest on the show before and always has interesting insights and knowledge to share, is the author of several books on Native American prehistory including: "The Mystery of the Serpent Mound," "A Tradition of Giants," and "Star Mounds: Legacy of a Native American Mystery." His research specialty is the lost and forgotten history of North America...

MARTIN PRECHTEL (CREE) to continue a discussion began last month about Prechtel's most recent book, "The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise." A leading thinker, writer, and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people, Prechtel is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh approach. In his native New Mexico Mart n teaches at...

PUALANI CASE (Kanaka Maoli) is from the Island of Hawai i (also known as the Big Island). With a degree in Hawaiian Language and Culture and a Teaching Degree in Social Studies, she has been a public school teacher as well as a Kumu Hula for more than 25 years. Pua and her ohana, or family, are active as leaders in and beyond their community, immersed in culture and tradition...

LOUISE BENALLY (Dineh) Benally is a long-time human and environmental rights activist who resides on the Navajo Nation. Ghosthorse also speaks with the three artists who are "Postcommodity," interdisciplinary Indigenous arts collective based in the Southwest. Postcommodity's land art installation "Repellent Fence" will be on view Oct. 9-12, 2015 near Douglas, AZ and Agua...

MARTIN PRECHTEL (CREE), author of "The Smell of Rain on Dust" (North Atlantic Books, 2015). Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer, and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people. He is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh approach. In his native New Mexico, Martin teaches at his international school Bolad's Kitchen "a hands-...

CARLA RAE MARSHALL (Cheyenne River Lakota) has provided independent creative and media services to various non-profit organizations including South Dakota Coalition Ending Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence (www.sdcedsv.org). She currently works through SDCEDVSV bringing awareness and prevention of Sex Trafficking in Indian Country of...

GLENN APARICIO PARRY for Part 2 of a discussion of Parry s latest book, Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity and Nature (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, 2015). Parry delves into the evolution of Western thought to recover the living roots of wisdom that can correct the imbalances in our modern worldview.

In the first hour, Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks about the cross-country journey of APACHE STRONGHOLD, www.Apache-Stronghold.com which is a group of Apache people and others who are traveling from Arizona to the East Coast to raise awareness about the protection of their sacred...

GLENN APARICIO PARRY Author of "Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity and Nature." The book delves into the evolution of Western thought to recover the living roots of wisdom that can correct the imbalances in our modern worldview. Inspired by groundbreaking dialogues that Parry organized between Native American elders and leading-edge...

AARON CARAPELLA (Cherokee) is the Producer of a series of tribal nations maps. (www.tribalnationsmaps.com) The map displays the original pre-contact homelands of the hundreds of tribal nations that existed across what is now Canada and the "lower 48" of the United States. Most of...

STEPHANY SEAY is the Media Coordinator of the Montana-based Buffalo Field Campaign, the only group working in the field, the courts, and the policy arena to protect America's last wild, migratory buffalo. (www.buffalofieldcampaign.org)MADONNA THUNDERHAWK...

MATT PETERSON and MALEK RASAMNY about their documentary film project "The Native and the Refugee: Reservations, Sovereignty and Autonomy," which investigates the experiences of Palestinian refugee camps and American Indian reservations and the similar struggles that exist between Native Americans and Palestinians. The second half-hour features social...

DANIEL KAUFMN is the Executive Director the Endangered Language Alliance in New York City. The Endangered Language Alliance is an independent non-profit and is the only organization in the world focused on the immense linguistic diversity of urban areas. Many of the New York area’s estimated 800 languages are highly endangered. ELA documents and describes under-described and...

KAMAHANA KEALOHA has been working as an organizer of a group of Kanaka Maoli representing several Hawaiian islands and a multi-ethnic group of supporters who are opposing the construction of a 30-meter telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea—also known as Mauna A Wakea—the most sacred place in the Hawaiian Islands for the Kanaka Maoli. The group, led by Lanakila Mangauil, a prominent...

UKUMBWA SAUTIis an initiated Elder in the Dagara tradition from Burkina Faso in west Africa and is a diviner, numerologist and spiritual counselor. He also works as an Adjunct Professor of Cultural Media Studies. Ukumbwa has created a line of research and critique called "Indigeny & Energetics," some of the perspectives of which reside on his blog of the same name. Part of...

PAUL WALKER the International Director of the Environmental Security and Sustainability (ESS) Program for Green Cross International (GCI). The ESS Program is an international effort to facilitate the safe demilitarization, nonproliferation, and remediation of nuclear, chemical, biological, and conventional weapons stockpiles. Walker received the Right Livelihood Award (RLA,...

AKIO MATSUMURA www.akiomatsumura.com - is a renowned diplomat who has dedicated his life to building bridges between government, business, and spiritual leaders in the cause of world peace. He is the founder and Secretary General of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders...

ROSS HAMILTON updates us on several theories of the Serpent Mounds in Ohio and the origin stories of the TALL BEINGS in Native lore and non-Native myth. He talks of the restoration of the order of light with Native American message now being heard and humanity as a whole must heed in order to allow the next age to take its place. Otherwise we as humans jeopardize our chances...

PEARL MEANS (Diñe) walked at the side of American Indian Activist, Artist, Author, Actor Russell Means as his wife, business manager and collaborator. From Activism to the Arts, from Indigenous policies to Hollywood she accompanied, organized and managed the affairs of the most influential American Indian of our time.
She serves as:
Co-Representative of the Russell...

MADONNA THUNDER HAWK is a member of the Oohenumpa band of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and is grandmother to a generation of Native American activists. is a co-founder of The Lakota Peoples Law Project (LPLP) (www.lakotalaw.org) working in South Dakota to stop the illegal seizure of Indian...

In this edition FVIR Host - TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE speaks to the narrative of spiritual de-colonization and the marginalization of Native peoples among alternative and progressive minded westerners. The usage of the English language as a capitive and illusory language which leaves Americans in an "in search of mentality."DEBORAH REGER hosts Moccasin Tracks...

A TIMELESS BROADCAST! SITANKA WOKIKSUYE with ALEX WHITE PLUME from December 2012ALEXANDER WHITE PLUME is Oglala Lakota and one of the founders of the Sitanka Wokiksuye (Wounded Knee Bigfoot Memorial Ride) (South Dakota) started in 1986. The nation needed a Wiping of the Tears ceremony after the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. The ride began because of...

REBROADCAST - Originally broadcast Feb. 28, 2013 on WBAI NYCSTAR MOUNDS - A Native American Legacy MysteryROSS HAMILTON has lived in the greater Cincinnati, Ohio area since the age of seven and has devoted his life to bringing to light the lost history of the North American continent. He has worked with activist Vine Deloria Jr.,...

TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE(Lakota) shares some of his thoughts on the upcoming American holiday season and Indigenous people's enduring legacy and perspective.JOHN TRUDELL (Dakota) In 1980 JT gave a "Thanksgiving Day" Address regarding the American system and how the nuclear firmanent is not the reality and the elite class of citizens accept the illusion of...

PAUL STAMETS has been a dedicated mycologist for over thirty years. Over this time, he has discovered and coauthored four new species of mushrooms, and pioneered countless techniques in the field of edible and medicinal mushroom cultivation. He received the 1998 "Bioneers Award" from The Collective Heritage Institute, and the 1999 "Founder of a New Northwest Award" from the...

"SEEDS OF OUR ANCESTORS, SEEDS OF LIFE"WINONA LADUKE is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. As Program Director of Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on the issues of climate...

On October 31st - A statement regarding the situation at Fukushima, Japan was released to the general public. This statement reflects the wisdom of the Spiritual People of the Earth, of North and South America, working in unity to restore peace, harmony and balance for our collective future and for all living beings.
This statement is written in black and white with a foreign...

SUREE TOWFIGHNIA - Director/Co-Producer of Crying Earth Rise Up (www.cryingearthriseup.com) is an intimate portrait of the human cost of uranium mining and its impact on sacred water.
It tells a timely story of protecting land, water and a way of life. A...

MUTABARUKA Voices his thoughts on COLUMBUS GHOST - A Jamaican (born Allan Hope, 26 December 1952, Rae Town, Kingston) is a dub poet. His name comes from the Rwandan language and translates as "one who is always victorious".LARRY MERCULIEF Indigenous Elder for Modern Times -Merculieff will spoke on indigenous elder wisdom and modern day personal to global...

DARLENE PIPEBOY a Dakota elder talks about the realities, philosophies of her people and their relationship to the politics, belief systems of religion and how Indigenous peoples are surviving. She also discusses the foretelling through experience of prophecies by the way Mother Earth is moving to change things.Her contacts are: 605.932.3628 Email -...

GREGG DEAL Pyramind Lake Paiute of (www.lastamericanindianonearth.com) The premise of the project is to take what would be commonly known to be Indigenous looking (by way of popular culture, misunderstandings, misconceptions) and to confront the general public with...

DR. DANIEL WILDCAT (Yuchi Muscogee)
Power and Place: Rights of Mother Earth
Thanks to Censored News, Indigenous Environmental Network and Earthcycles for the audio recordging this past week at the Rights for Mother Earth Gathering in Lawrence, Kansas at the Haskell Indian Nations University.JONAS ELROD was leading an ordinary life until he...

Today First Voices Indigenous Radio will be featuring a new segment with Niijii Radio and WINONA LADUKE(Anishinabe) - HONOR THE EARTH (www.honorearth.org).
Winona LaDuke's Albitoose radio program (meaning Wednesday in the Anishinabe language), and KKWE 89.9 FM, in Callaway, Minnesota. With...

BRIAN KELLY
Brian jumped into the alternative media scene in 2012 when he became involved with a group called the One People's Public Trust, an organization who had been quietly dismantling the global banking elite, utilizing a vast arrangement of UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) filings to unwind the system from within. Brian played a major role in unveiling this movement...

DEBORAH REGER - Host of Moccasin Tracks in WGDR (www.wgdr.com) Goddard Community College. Moccasin Tracks explores the efforts, thoughts and wisdom of the Indigenous Peoples of Vermont- and beyond- and also grassroots activism, including non-violent civil-resistance. The show questions cooperation or...

BEN OOFANA (Kiowa) Longhorn Mountain (www.facebook.com/SaveLonghornMountain) has tremendous spiritual significance and is considered to be the most sacred of all sites by the Kiowa people of Oklahoma. Longhorn Mountain is used by the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache...

ANTHONY DELLAFLORA Producer of The Language of Spirituality (www.thelanguageofspirituality.com)
Do the languages and cosmologies of Native Americans hold the keys to the mysteries of quantum physics and the nature of reality? That is the intriguing premise of...

KAREN SUSSMAN - President of the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros talks about the emergency situation of 4 herd of wild horses that were originally slated for slaughter, but facing a downsizing due to the cost of maintaining the herds. The (www.ISPMB.org) wild horse ranch is...

EVAN PRITCHARD- a descendant of the Micmac people (part of the Algonquin nations) is the founder of The Center for Algonquin Culture, and is currently Professor of Native American history at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he also teaches ethics and philosophy. www....

ARVOL LOOKING HORSE (Itazipcola Lakota Nation) www.worldpeaceandprayerday.com
Following the birth of a White Buffalo Calf in 1994, the Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe for the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations Arvol Looking Horse, was directed to honor the Four...

SETH ADLER (www.leftforum.org)
The Left Forum 2013 updates on the conference coming to Pace University New York on June 7-9, 2013ELVIRA & HORTENCIA COLORADO - COATLICUE THEATRE COMPANY : 25 years of performance, culture and activism
Hemispheric Institute of...

DOUG GEORGE-KANENTIIO is an Akwesasne Mohawk. He is the co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association and author of "Iroquois On Fire".
(www.Indianz.com) From article "Oneida Nation violates Iroquois laws"
"The Oneida Nation of New York did not exist until 1993, the Seneca...

CANDACE DUCHENEAUX (Lakota) (www.facebook.com) and type in Mni or Mni Indigenous Water Summit to get the latest information and logistics
Water justice, sovereignty, and security for present and future generations of Turtle Island Indigenous nations through the restoration, preservation, and...

DEBRA WHITE PLUME (Lakota) Director of Owe Aku (www.oweakuinternational.org) works to bring back our way of life which includes humanity's role in nature: we are a part of it, not outside of it, not having dominion over it. To achieve this Owe Aku works to stop mining that...

JANENE YAZZIE-COLLYMORE is a Dine independent scholar, entrepreneur, and human rights advocate. She is from the Black Streak Wood People clan, born for the Bitter water people. Her grandparents are from the the Comanche and White Mountain Apache Nations. As CEO of Sixth World Solutions (www.sixth-...

Prof. EVAN PRITCHARD - www.algonquinculture.org - He is the author of Native New Yorkers, The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York.
He is also the author of the widely praised No Word For Time, the Way of the Algonquin People, and many other books, including an Algonkian...

IAN HANCOCK (Romani: Yanko le Red osko) (born August 29, 1942) (www.radoc.net) is a linguist, Romani scholar, and political advocate. He was born and raised in England, and is one of the main contributors in the field of Romani studies.
He is director of the Program of Romani Studies and the Romani...

STAR MOUNDS - A Native American Legacy MysteryROSS HAMILTON (www.serpentmound.org) has lived in the greater Cincinnati, Ohio area since the age of seven and has devoted his life to bringing to light the lost history of the North American continent. He has worked with...

JOSEPH MARSHALL III (www.josephmarshall.com) born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) tribe. Because he was raised in a traditional Lakota household by his maternal grandparents, his first language is Lakota....

JENNIFER ASHAWASEGAI is a citizen of the Anishinabek Nation and member of Henvey Inlet First Nation. Jennifer is also a freelance journalist and published in Indigenous newspapers throughout North America, as well as discusses northern Ontario 'Nish' news on a weekly basis on Aboriginal People's Television Network National News. She will update us on Idle No More and the...

CHASE IRON EYES (Hunkpapa Lakota) - is a founding writer at www.lastrealindians.com, as well as a speaker and attorney. Chase was a principal organizer for the recent effort to reclaim Black Hills sacred land and is instrumental in organizing the 1st annual Wounded Knee Survivors Run....

JOHN SCHERTOW is an indigenous media activist of Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) and mixed-European descent, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Since 2004, John has served as editor & publisher of www. IntercontinentalCry.org an online magazine which he also founded. In addition to his work as an editor and publisher, John has written more than 1000 articles on the struggles of...

Dr. PAMELA PALMATER is a Mi'kmaw citizen and member of the Eel River Bar First Nation in northern New Brunswick. She is a mother of two boys, Mitchell and Jeremy ages 20 and 18 and comes from a large family of 8 sisters and 3 brothers. She has been a practicing lawyer for 14 years and she holds the position of Associate Professor and Chair in Indigenous Governance in the...

*ALEX WHITE PLUMEis Oglala Lakota and one of the founders of the Wounded Knee Bigfoot Memorial Ride (South Dakota) started in 1986. The nation needed a Wiping of the Tears ceremony after the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. The ride began because of the way our people were living; they needed change and a way that brought awareness to what happened to Bigfoot and his people...

Elivra Colorado talks about an event ACH'JABIL a Maya Ceremony to be held on Dec. 21st at the American Indian Community House.Shaun Finnerty also will be appearing at the AICH event and will discuss the implications of the myth created by non-Native peoples and the 2012 Dec. 21 Prophecy.Dr. Pamela D. Palmater is a Mi'kmaw lawyer...

This program seeks to create further awareness of the struggles of the Lakota Sioux and the Cheyenne Indians to get the U.S. government to return their sacred land in South Dakota. "Paha Sapa" means "Black Hills" in the Lakota language. The story is told by the tribe's own members, some of whom are descendants of such famous chiefs as Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and Black Elk. You will hear Lakota...

JUAN GONZALEZ (Wakatel Balam) (wakatel_balam@hotmail.com) spoke at the 2012 Day of Mourning in Plymouth MA about the reality of the so-called Maya Prophecies. He spoke of the Council of Maya Elders Aj'qij'ab is the traditional way of organization
and represents all the Maya communities,
their work...

ROBERT JENSEN is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism and author of the personal memoir All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice, a compelling memoir that highlights the religious debate currently raging in the United States. I had the chance to contact Dr. Jensen to discuss some of the themes he raised...

An audio collage of speakers and music, prophecy, activism and spoken word from the archives of First Voices Indigenous Radio circa 1981 to 2010.
In order of appearance;Arvol Looking Horse
John Trudell
Tim Bennett (Life At The End of Empire: What A Way To Go)
Tom Cook (In Bolivia)

DERRICK JENSEN has been called "the philosopher-poet of the environmental movement." Derrick interviewed a number of people who each hold an impassioned critique of this culture and can offer ideas on what can be done to build a real resistance movement. Derrick interviews WAZIYATA WIN- a Dakota Nation Historian and "anti-colonial" activitst as well as author...

EVAN PRITCHARD a descendant of the Micmac people (part of the Algonquin nations) is the founder of The Center for Algonquin Culture, and is currently Professor of Native American history at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he also teaches ethics and philosophy. www....

STORY ONE:
SOURCE: The Guardian (www.guardian.com)
IN SOUTH AMERICA - BOLIVA
Bolivia enacts law to protect Amazon pink dolphins
Bolivian President Evo Morales has enacted a law aimed at protecting a unique species of dolphins that live in the country's Amazon rivers.
The...

Prof. EVAN PRITCHARD- www.algonquinculture.org - He is the author of Native New Yorkers, The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York.
He is also the author of the widely praised No Word For Time, the Way of the Algonquin People, and many other books, including an Algonkian...

STORY ONE:
SOURCE: : CARE2 (www.care2.com)
IN AOTEORA or New Zealand
New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of Personhood
From the dawn of history, and in cultures throughout the world, humans have been prone to imbue Earth’s life-giving rivers with qualities of life itself — a...

MARIO A. MURILLO substituting for Tiokasin GhosthorseMAIRA IRIGARAY- an attorney and the Brazil Program Director of Amazon Watch in San Francisco. She’s been actively involved in the movement to stop Belo Monte for years and just returned from Brazil. Runs 15:15...

STORY ONE:
SOURCE: Amesty International (www.amnesty.org)
In SOUTH AMERICA - BRAZIL
Mato Grosso do Sul: Indigenous Community Attacked, Threatened
The Arroio Kor indigenous community in the central-western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, have been attacked by gunmen...

MARIO MURILLO Guest Host's FVIR - In Cauca, Colombia, the war against indigenous people continues to escalate as the Nasa communities resist armed actors from all camps. On Sunday, a spiritual leader, or The Wala, was assassinated in his home in the municipality of Caloto.Segment #1: Context of the Current Crisis of Indigenous Resistance Across the AmericasManuel...

STORY ONE:
SOURCE: Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources News (www.indigenouspeoplesissues.com)
IN CENTRAL AMERICA
Mexico: Statement Concerning Military Intervention In Kumiai Community
We are joined together at this first statewide gathering of...

JOHN KANE - Guest Host
My guest today was Len Violi, a New York based attorney who represents a couple of Native companies and individuals involved with the tobacco industry as it exists in "Indian Country". Len has argued cases in state and federal courts as it relates to Native commerce. Mr. Violi has also brought the U.S. into an international...

PART 2 of 2Wisdomkeepers are the guardians of nature's mysteries within the Lakota ceremonies and their practices, the medicine that is ruled by them, the songs that infuse our senses and our spiritual body, and the forces they produce that are identical to nature and its motivating power. These oral and entirely spontaneous transmissions, given by the three holy men,...

PART 1 of 2Wisdomkeepers are the guardians of nature's mysteries within the Lakota ceremonies and their practices, the medicine that is ruled by them, the songs that infuse our senses and our spiritual body, and the forces they produce that are identical to nature and its motivating power. These oral and entirely spontaneous transmissions, given by the three holy men,...

DR. KRISHNA BHATTACHAN (www.nefin.org.np) Professor of Sociology in Tribhuwan University in Nepal is a leader of indigenous people's movement and coordinator of the "Indigenous Peoples' Mega Front.
Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) an umbrella organization of Nepalese...

Free distribution and airplay for Pacifica Affliates interested in worldwide Indigenous affairs for the week of July 5th - July 12th, 2012STORY ONE:
SOURCE: Front Line Defenders (www.frontlinedefenders.org)
In South America\Brazil
On 24...

ANDREW MILLER (www.amazonwatch.org) We discuss the current situation in Brazil regarding the Belo Monte "super" dam currently under construction. Various Native peoples who face extinction and other problems such as no more river(s) to maintain their once flourshing lands and peoples. This...

SKYWAVES – June 21st, 2012Free distribution and airplay for Pacifica Affliates interested in worldwide Indigenous affairs for the week of June 21st - June 28th, 2012.
“This is Skywaves: Indigenous News Worldwide, a news feature about the remaining cultures of Indigenous peoples globally and the struggles they face daily, including those in your...

*NOTICE* Due to agreements with AUDIOPORT.org and Pacifica Radio Network - we will be uploading a weekly boilerplate or a generic version of reference to your radio staion. In other words, no specific station ID's but for music at the Intro, 30min break and outro. FVIR will be uploading one program for your station's rebroadcast in order to save and use less bandwidth space on AUDIOPORT.* IF...

*NOTICE* Due to agreements with AUDIOPORT.org and Pacifica Radio Network - we will be uploading a weekly boilerplate or a generic version of reference to your radio staion. In other words, no specific station ID's but for music at the Intro, 30min break and outro.
FVIR will be uploading one program for your station's rebroadcast in order to save and use less bandwidth space on AUDIOPORT...

THIS JUNE 7TH, 2012 broadcast is available to download to all radio stations. It is an edited version for time content only.
*NOTICE* Due to agreements with AUDIOPORT.org and Pacifica Radio Network - we will be uploading a weekly boilerplate or a generic version of reference to your radio staion. In other words, no specific station ID's but for music at the Intro, 30min...

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA
*Originally broadcast March 29th, 2012 w/additional music.DOUG GEORGE-KANENTIIO is an Akwesasne Mohawk. He is the co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association, a former member of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian and the author of "Iroquois On Fire". He...

ANNIE LEONARD -The Story Of Stuff - From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental...

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PENNYSLVANIASTAR MOUNDS - A Native American Legacy Mystery - PART TWO of TWOROSS HAMILTON has lived in the greater Cincinnati, Ohio area since the age of seven and has devoted his life to bringing to light the lost history of the North American continent. He has worked with activist Vine Deloria Jr...

SKYWAVES: Indigenous News WorldwideSTORY ONE:
Source: corpwatch.org
In Asia
An oil spill in northern Russia from a joint venture between Lukoil and Bashneft has damaged fragile reindeer pastures in yet another blow to the indigenous Nenets people. Environmental activists have warned about such disasters for decades but few precautions...

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIASTAR MOUNDS - A Native American Legacy Mystery - PART ONE of TWOROSS HAMILTON has lived in the greater Cincinnati, Ohio area since the age of seven and has devoted his life to bringing to light the lost history of the North American continent. He has worked with activist Vine Deloria...

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIASKYWAVES:Indigenous News Worldwide broadcasts within the first 15 minutes.The Ramapough/Lunaape Nation is calling on all humans of good conscience to join a prayer rally/vigil on our Ceremonial Land:
Where: Mahwah, New Jersey 95 Halifax Road
Date: Saturday, May 5th, 2012...

SKYWAVES: Indigenous News WorldwideSTORY ONE:
Chevron Lawyer Claims That Victims Of Rainforest Contamination Are “Irrelevant”
In South America
A lead Chevron lawyer has made the preposterous claim that the 30,000 Ecuadorian victims of the oil giant's contamination are "irrelevant" to the court case that led to an $18 billion judgment...

SKYWAVES:Indigenous News Worldwide
A news feature about the remaining cultures of Indigenous peoples globally and the struggles they face daily - including those in your back yard.
STORY ONE:
Read Orginal Article here: www.ens-newswire.com/
In South America...

Skywaves: Indigenous News Worldwide.
A news feature about the remaining cultures of Indigenous peoples globally and the struggles they face daily - including those in your back yard.
STORY ONE:
In South America
Peru’s government is ignoring new UN guidelines on the protection of uncontacted Indians in the Amazon. Instead of backing the UN’s landmark...

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIADOUG GEORGE-KANENTIIOis an Akwesasne Mohawk. He is the co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association, a former member of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian and the author of "Iroquois On Fire". He resides in upstate Onieda Territory with his wife Joanne Shenandoah...

SKYWAVES: Indigenous News Worldwide - March 29th, 2012
There are an estimated 350 million indigenous peoples remaining with Mother Earth. They legally own more than 11% of the world’s forests and those coincide with areas that hold up to 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. Traditional knowledge is a different but no less valid way of understanding the world....

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PADARLENE PIPEBOY a Dakota elder talks about the realities, philosophies of her people and their relationship to the politics, belief systems of religion and how Indigenous peoples are surviving. She also discusses the foretelling through experience of prophecies by the way Mother Earth is moving to change things. Her...

SKYWAVES: Indigenous News Worldwide
Story One: Botswana, Africa: Bushmen Make A Splash On World Water Day - For the first time in ten years, Botswana's Bushmen are celebrating World Water Day as they enjoy unobstructed access to the life-giving substance.
Story Two:Canada, North America - First Nations from Alberta and the Northwest Territories gathered in Edmonton...

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA *FVIR Will be in fundraising mode until March 1st and programming will vary until regular programming resumes.DOUGIE MACLEANwww.dougiemaclean.com is Scotland's pre-eminent singer-songwriter and a national musical...

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA
*FVIR will be in a fundraising mode until March 8th when regular programming will resume.
FVIR celebrates it 10th year on WBAI NY and Tiokasin Ghosthorse's 20th year on the radio!
Today is a compilation of various songs including:
What's Going On - Los Lobos
Geronimo's Cadillac - Dick Gaughan...

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIADEBRA WHITE PLUME- Manderson, SD - is the Director of Owe Aku or Bring Back the Way - a grassroots nongovernmental organization dedicated to the preservation of the Lakota Way of Life and Treaty Rights.
On Sunday January 15th, a group of powerful Native women held a day long conference called Winyan...

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - Scanton, PA (go to audiport.org for your radio stations download)WINONA LADUKE Anishinabaweg (www.niijiiradio.com>from the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota. Winona is the Executive Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project the Parent Organization of Niijii...

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - Scanton, PA (go to audiport.org for your radio stations download)KAHENTINETHA HORNE of The Kanion'ke:haka/Mohawk Nation (www.mohawknationnews.com) is a member of the Rotino'shonni:onwe/Iroquois Confederacy.
What are we going to do? Is the...

EDITED VERSION FOR WFTE - SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA DEMELZA CHAMPAGNE, JOHN FREISEN, JAKE LITTLE, JEREME AMOUAK and FARREL - NEW YORK - All join in a discussion about the current "Occupation" movement and the use of language.
"To most, the irony of a progressive social movement using the term “occupy” to reshape how Americans think about issues of...

EDITIED VERSION FOR WFTE SCRANTON, PA. GRANDMOTHER MARGARET BEHAN -Montana- is a member of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers (www.grandmotherscouncil.org). These women have been travelling to each other's homelands for several...

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI NYC (Open ended no intro - break - outro - please insert your station ID breaks)
One of the objectives of this technologic reality has to do with erasing the memories of the human beings, because we have a common collective experience. We are all the descendants of tribes. - John Trudell
From Descendants Now Ancestors 2001 (JohnTrudell.com...

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI NEW YORKMAHINA MOVEMENT (mahinamovement.com), Vaimoana Niumeitolu, Gabriella Callendar, Erica DeLaRosa
Mahina Movement is the phenomenal 3 women trio who combine poetry and song to create passionate music tied to flesh and bone, straight from the heart. Mahina Movement’s extraordinary melodies tell stories of the personal...

EDITED VERSION FOR WJFF JEFFERSONVILLE, NEW YORKPHILLIP DEERE (Muskogee Creek> Phillip was a traditional healer from Nuyaka Grounds, Okemah, Oklahoma, who became a spiritual leader, civil and human rights activist, oral historian and storyteller.
Phillip was a founder of the Traditional Youths and Elders Circle and a spiritual guide for the...

EDITED VERSION FOR KVNF PAONIA, COLORADOMUTABARUKA Voices his thoughts on COLUMBUS GHOST - A Jamaican (born Allan Hope, 26 December 1952, Rae Town, Kingston) is a dub poet. His name comes from the Rwandan language and translates as "one who is always victorious". He lives in Potosi District, St. James with his significant other, Yvonne, and their two...

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI NEW YORKLEFT ON REDwww.leftonredmusic.com Live in studio with their new conscious aware music CD The Underground Busking Experience. Their October touris designed to promote and educate about fair trade chocolate and the child slavery in the cocoa farms in...

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI 99.5 FM NY, NEW YORKBINDI COLE and KALIA BROOKSwww.mocada.orgSaying No: Reconciling Spirituality and Resistance in Indigenous Australian Art. The word “No” does not exist in the majority of the over 200 Australian Aboriginal languages, and where it does exist, this powerful word is reserved for...

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI 99.5 FM NEW YORK, NYJENNIFER JESSUM & SIMON JOSEPH (www.holymanfilm.com)
Holy Man is the story of Douglas White, an 88 year old Lakota wicasa wakan or medicine man from Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation in South Dakota, who spent 17 years in...

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI NY
September 11th, 2011 marks the tenth anniversary day in the American’s history as one of tragedy and rememberance. 10 years later questions are still be asked as to what really happened that day 9-11-01.
Les Jamieson is one who has asked those questions or rather one who has questioned the answers most accepted by media pundits and...

EDITED VERSION FOR WBAI NY
Robbie Robertson, (born Jaime Royal Robertson, July 5, 1943); is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 78th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. The Band has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

EDITED VERSION FOR KVNF PAONIA COLORADO
"What a Way to Go" is a total rejection of the self-destruction paradigm that hard-wires Amerian culture. Brutal honesty is applied to issues of our day. ␣ ␣ But these aren't just issues of our day; they are issues of the universe because the planet itself is becoming altered before our eyes toward unending extinction. It is clear we are caught in...

EDITED VERSION FOR KVNF PAONIA, COLORADO
from a 3-hour fundraising edition.
Peter Joseph presents a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical "life ground" attributes of...

EDITED FOR KVNF PAONIA COLORADO
Black Elk Speaks / John G. Neihardt| produced by Ralph and Natasha Friar. - WBAI presents the continuing readings by Native Americans of "Black Elk Speaks" by John G. Neihardt. It is the story of the great spiritual leader of the Oglala Sioux who was born in 1863 and lived through the onslaught of the frontier settlers and soldiers desecrating his peoples...

EDITED FOR WPKN BRIDGEPORT-NEW HAVEN, CTCORRINA GOULD Chochenyo Ohlone – www.protectglencove.org
Sogorea Te or Ssogoréate was a large village and gathering/ceremonial ground utilized by dozens of tribes who lived near and around the San Francisco Bay Area, For over 3500...

EDITED VERSION FOR WPKN BRIDGEPORT - NEW HAVEN, CTJOHN TRUDELLwww.johntrudell.com - DNA (Descendants Now Ancestors) - July 4th, 2011 marks the 236 year of the Declaration of Dependence, that’s right, Dependence. Some people look at this system of democracy and often question its,...

EDITED VERSION FOR WPKN BRIDGEPORT - NEW HAVEN, CONN.SUZAN SHOWN HARJO Observances and ceremonies will be held across the country from June 17 through June 21 to mark the 2011 National Days of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places.
“Native and non-Native people nationwide gather at this time for Solstice ceremonies and to honor sacred places,” said Suzan...

EDITED VERSION for WBAI NEW YORKLISA & JOHNNY BONTA , May 24th - A Pyramid Lake Paiute family was attacked by neo-Nazi skinheads at a Fernley, Nevada, convenience store, east of Reno. Family members were beaten with a crowbar and baseball bats, and stabbed. The neo nazis tried to cut off Bonta's braid. The victim, Bonta, was then arrested because of the white...

REBECCA ADAMSONwww.firstpeoplesworldwide.org and PHILLEMON NAKALI LOYELEi (Nyangatom tribal member from Ethiopia’s South Omo River Valley) testified on May in Washington D.C. at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission with Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass.,...

EDITED VERSION for KVNF PAONIA COLORADOSEVERN SUZUKI In 1992 the UN Earth Summit was held in Rio - its findings contributed to the much-discussed Kyoto Protocol designed to combat climate change. Yet the enduring memory of that summit was a dramatic speech given by a 12 year-old girl from Canada.Q'ORIANKA KILCHER has made a commitment to human...

EDITED VERSION WBAI NEW YORKDOUG GEORGE-KANENTIIO - Awkesasne Mohawk www.hiawatha.syr.edu The Hiawatha Institute for Indigenous Knowledge (HIIK) was established on February 19, 2011 (501.3.c is pending approval). The Institute is the fulfillment of a dream first envisioned by the Oneida...

EDITED VERSION WPKN BRIDGEPORT-NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUTMADONNA THUNDER HAWKwww.lakotapeopleslawproject.org is a co-founder of The Lakota Peoples Law Project (LPLP) The Lakota People’s Law Project (LPLP) is working in South Dakota to stop the illegal seizure of...

EDITED VERSION KFAI MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAULJOANNE SHENANDOAHwww.joanneshenandoah A GRAMMY Award and 12 Time Native American Music award winning artist; and Wolf Clan member of the Iroquois Confederacy, Joanne Shenandoah has fulfilled the promise of her Native American name, Tekaliwah-...

EDITED VERSION WPKN BRIDGEPORT-NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUTBridget Brehan & Victoria Cumes Jochola and www.nisgua.org Marlin Mine in Guatemala's Western highlands. Owned by Goldcorp, Inc., the second-largest gold mining company in the world, Marlin is an open-pit and underground mine and Goldcorp's...

EDITED VERSION KVNF PAONIA COLORADOMARILYN ELLEwww.ipsecinfo.org INDIAN POINT - A nuclear power plant in upstate New York that is located on two major fault lines susceptible to earthquakes and the current controversy of keeping it open. With one reactor shut down with storage of spent...

KELSEY MILLER (www.kalpulli.drupalgardens.com) discusses Kapulli Turtle Island Multiversity and working to help bring people back to a sustainable, sane kind of life - is an organization dedicated to education of ecological restoration and cultural restoration. We are...

ROBERTO RODRIQUEZ drcinti.blogspot.com Tucson, Arizona the national narrative has been crafted as a story about heroism and healing. And it is a true and uplifting story. Yet, Arizona’s actual hate has generally been off the radar. And again, this hate isn’t necessarily about right-left, Republican vs. Democrats, conservatives (Tea Partiers) vs. Liberals. Instead, most of the...

MAURA HARRINGTON shelltosea.com In Dec. 2010, the people of County Mayo awaited a decision about the multinational Shell continuing with the Corrib Gas Project. If permission is granted, the people of County Mayo, West Ireland will direct action against the project. A senior figure in Shell said that there could be dozens of gasfields similar to a major one off Ireland's west...

STEPHANY SEAY - www.buffalofieldcampaign.org Buffalo Field Campaign in Montana. The wild bison of the Yellowstone region are America’s last continuously wild population. During 2007-2008 more than 1,300 wild bison were captured in Yellowstone National Park and shipped to...

MAURA HARRINGTONwww.shelltosea.com is a spokeswoman for the Shell to Sea campaign, from County Mayo, Ireland. The Shell to Sea campaign has been involved in a local community based protest against the SHELL OIL Company for over ten years. Kilcommon parish, Erris, County Mayo, Ireland opposes...

SANTI HITORANGIwww.saverapanui New Evictions By Chilean Forces Of Rapanui The Chilean government is now moving to evict all Rapanui from their lands in a move to grab and privatize the Moai.NICKOLAS KOZLOFF...

SANTI HITORANGI (www.saverapanui.org)who was wounded by fourteen pellet shots in his back and legs while he filmed the events of December 3rd, was forced to leave the island without notice because he was hunted by the Chilean Special Forces to destroy his media and evidence of the undue...

SUSAN HITO (www.saverapanui.org) On Friday, December 3, Chilean troops opened fire on unarmed Rapa Nui (Easter Island) People who have been peacefully occupying tribal land taken over by the State. The attack has left 21 Rapanui wounded with 3 needing to be evacuated to mainland Chile to be...

Aaron Hueywww.aaronhuey.com is a photographer for the National Geographic magazines, the Smithsonian Magazine, Harpers, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and many more in the foreign press. Huey has photographed Taliban ambushes and drug eradication in Afghanistan, antiquities smuggling in...

1st of 3 Hours of Special - First Voices Indigenous Radio 9AM to 10AMCHRISTINE HALVORSON Program Director Rainforest Foundation In a critical decision, one of Brazil’s Supreme Court Judges voted in favor of maintaining Raposa Serra do Sol (RSS) as a continuous indigenous land. Although the other judges on the Court still need to vote on the matter, this was seen as an...

DELANEY BRUCEwww.whoisleonardpeltier.infoPeltier Family Accuses U.S. Government of Medical Neglect “A man dies from prostate cancer every 16 minutes in this country. Why does my brother have to wait over a year to receive even a diagnosis?” Leonard Peltier...

***REMINDER: FIRST VOICES INDIGENOUS RADIO MOVES TO 9AM - THURSDAYS Beginning November 18th***DAVID AMRAM: The First 80 Years www.davidamram.comHe has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works; numerous scores for Broadway theater and film; two operas...

*FVIR will broadcast at a new time 9AM beginning Nov. 18th ZUBEN ORNELASwww.realityhouse.org OR www.AICH.org Crossing Generations an event HONORING OUR WARRIORS (VETERANS), sponsored by the American...

Grandmother Jyoti of the International Council of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers www.grandmotherscounil.org. In the fall of 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers gathered from all over the world, from Alaska, North, South, and Central America; Africa; and Asia. “We are...

JENNIFER KRIESBERG (Tuscarora Nation) of the Red Diva Project's "The Road Forward" which brings attention to missing and murdered aboriginal women, according to the Native Women's Association of Canada is: 582. The "unofficial" number is over 1,200 www.nwac.ca/JAMES CRAVEN (Blackfeet...

Johnathan Mazowerwww.survivalinternational.org reports on several fronts regarding the near extinction of 34 Indigenous groups in South America and a recent victory by the Dongria Kondh people of India against an international mining corporation Vedanta's billionaire owner...

SANTI HITORANGIwww.saverapanui.org Armed Chilean Police forcibly removed the unarmed Rapanui Hito family in the middle of the night from the Hanga Roa Hotel. The Hito family are being charged with criminal trespass and terrorism. They are in imminent danger of being taken from the island...

SUSAN HITORANGIwww.saverapanui.org Updates regarding the "reoccupation of Rapanui lands" misnomered as Easter Island, by the Rapanui people and the arrest warrants for a large number of its original inhabitants. Illegally taken Rapanui lands by the Chilean government is in question....

JAMES SWAN of the United Urban Warrior Society is a group of people working to help reassure the community, and the Native American population, by conducting community policing in Rapid City, South Dakota. EMAIL: aimbhc@yahoo.comKARAH WOODWARDDigital Warrior Media...

Tina Cordova, Louise Benally & Anna Rondon a coalition of community groups affected by uranium mining and committed to renewable energy development — announces the 31st Anniversary Commemoration of the Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill of July 16 - 1979. The purposes of this event are to remember and honor the Diné communities that were affected by the largest release of...

Canunpa Gluha Mani In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order that removed the Nebraska land from the reservation; the legality of this order has been disputed. Ever since, Whiteclay has been notable primarily for the vast quantities of alcohol sold to residents of the legally dry Pine Ridge reservation. The status of Whiteclay's beer stores became a...

Ronald Holloway of The NJ Sand Hill Band Of Lenape & Cherokee Indians filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court in Newark NJ laying claim to the State of NJ as well as charging the then Governor Corzine, NJ Sec'ty of State Nina Wells; NJ Attorney General Ann Milgram and NJ Senate President, Richard Codey with violation of human rights, genocide, and breaking of treaties etc....

JAMIE BILLIOT (Dulac People of the Houma Nation, Louisiana), Director of the Community Center in Dulac, here at the USSF to speak to the affects of the BP Gulf oil spill.CLAYTON THOMAS-MULLER(Mathais Colomb Cree Nation also known as Pukatawagan in Northern Manitoba, Canada) is an activist for Indigenous rights and environmental justice. Clayton is the...

SCOTT RICHARD LYONS (Ojibwe/Dakota) is associate professor of English at Syracuse University, where he teaches Indigenous and American literatures. Author of the new book X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent During the 18th and 19th centuries, North American Indian leaders leaders community signed treaties with the Europeans powers and the American and...

Hello Listeners!!!
ON MAY 20th from 10AM to 12PM (noon)FIRST VOICES INDIGENOUS RADIO
will be fundraising/membership driving to stay on the air. FVIR supporters must pledge between the hours of 10AM to 12PM for several premiums.Please help keep First Voices Indigenous Radio on the air!.
We need to show a strong financially...

Reports of 3 Blackhawk helicopters attempting to land on the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre site for "educational and historical" purposes is thwarted by the traditional Lakota and the logic used by the Oglala Sioux Tribal Indian Reorganization Act government to communicate. ...

KARMEN RAMIREZ BOSCAN (Wayuu) - the real life of Avatar’s Indigenous peoples - talks about the impact of Colombia’s armed conflict and trans-national companies. The Wayuu’s opposition to eight megaprojects - Jepirachi Wind Park, the Caribe Gas Pipeline between Colombia and Venezuela, the Rancheria River dam, and especially to the El Cerrejon mine were the reasons for the...

KAREN REDHAWK DALLET (Shadow Catchers Institute) & BRAD GARNESS(Alaskan Inter-Council) and KAI LANDOW & TOM ANTHONY -Attny. Hawaii Kingdom
"On April 19-22, 2010, over 15,000 people and up to 70 governments from all over the world will gather to attend the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth...

JOHN CHASE Yup'ik Eskimo hunter living above the arctic circle in Kotzebue, Alaska, talks about the idea of 'nukalpiaq'. It is a Yup'ik name for a person - a great hunter and provider. They are generally young men. He is interviewed by Andrei Jacobs.

WILMA MANKILLER 64, the once dirt-poor Oklahoma farm girl who grew up to become an activist for American Indian causes and women's rights, an author and the first woman to hold the Cherokee Nation’s highest office, died Tuesday.PETER BRATT – Director of La Mission Interview by Andrei...

ELIAS PAILLAN, a Mapuche radio journalist exposes the inefficiency and limitations of state after the Feb. 27th earthquake & tsunami wreaked havoc in the countryside and coastline of south central Chile, leaving thousands of victims and destroyed villages. The mainstream media in the U.S. encloses the bubble created to sell as a developed country - Chile....

JOSE AYLWIN - MAPUCHE In the wake of February's 8.8 earthquake in Chile In contrast of official Chilean claims that ‘the situation is under control’, reports from the south of the country claim that rural communities are currently without ‘food, water, gas, electricity and telecommunications’. The status of the Mapuche-...

BILL MILLER a Mohican, 3 x Grammy Award winning singer songwriter and a master of the Native flute along with multiple Native American Music awards in recognition of his songwriting.TARA PRETENDS EAGLE WEBER Founder of the Intertribal Warrior Society for Children, created in honor of her son's battle...

>MARIJO MOORE Author of The Boy With A Tree Growing From His Ear by Renegade Publishing and 17 other books. We review the motion within the pages of her newest books. Contact: 828-665-7630RUDOLFO SALMStop Belo Monte...

Concepcion, Chile - Jose Alywin Observatorio Ciudadono - The 8.8 magnitude earthquake on February 27th, ultimately exposes the political elite and the media who deny, that of a country where affluence coexists with material poverty, the First World with Third World. Despite the efforts they have made for years to show Chile as a winner, a...

Commentary on the devastation of the earthquake in Haiti and the militarization of the country by the U.S. A magnitude 5.9 aftershock, since the 12 ­January cataclysm, caused no serious reported damage or casualties.Basem Khader Gaza Blockade http://www.electronicintifada...

Basem Khader - former economist with the United Nations updates us on the situation at the Egypt/Gaza border. Website: electronicintifada.net Phillip Whiteman Jr. and Lynette Two Bulls have organized the Northern Cheyenne's Fort Robinson Outbreak Spiritual Run - about 100 tribal members - most...

Protecting Mother Earth: The Battle to Defend Sacred Sites and the Indigenous Youth Movement
“Government agencies and others in charge of protecting the relationships between our people, the land, air and water have repeatedly broken treaties and promises. In doing so...

Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas Suffers Water Crisis, Files Lawsuit For Rights to Reservoir Project; Language Teacher Succeeds in Making Lakota Part of High School CurriculumKickapoo Tribe Files Lawsuit Against U.S. and Local Officials for Water Rights
The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas relies on water from the Delaware River for consumption, but they are...

Native Americans, Military Service and PTSD
We take a look at the culturally-unique experience of Native Americans and combat experience. How are Native American veterans coping with post traumatic stress disorder and why are they the ethnic group with the highest proportion of military enlistment in the U.S.? Compared to the general population, nearly three times as...

Penobscot Nation Part of Unique Collaboration to Restore River and Salmon; Montana Coal Wars Veteran Gail Small on Energy Policies, Land Rights, Abramoff and MoreCecilia Fire Thunder Refuses to Be Silenced
In South Dakota, Oglala Sioux Tribe President Cecilia Fire Thunder is speaking out against a gag order issued by the Oglala Sioux Tribal...

A Debate on the Native Hawaii Recognition Bill; 100 Days: An Update on the Six Nations Standoff in Caledonia; The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Moves Towards Federal Recognition100 Days of Occupation: Six Nations Standoff at Caledonia Continuessix nations standoff in Caledonia...

Bringing Indigenous Issues to the United Nations: Re-defining the Millennium Development Goals; Bolivian Water War Leader Oscar Olivera Collaborates in Film Project, Fundraiser Tonight!
Fundraiser for "Gringomobile Diaries: Bolivia", will show raw clips of the film and raise money for post-production costs. Also showing "Gringoton (Gringo-thon)" and other award-...

Mohawk Nation Clashes With Canadian Authorities; Lakota Elders Share Wisdom on Issues From Global Warming to Abortion
Mohawks Continue Peaceful Takeover to Halt Non-Indigenous Development on Tribal Land
We speak with Hazel Hill, an Onkwehonweh at Grand River community, currently in a jurisdictional dispute with the Canadian government. There is an effort by...

Abramoff Scandal's Impact on Indian Country; Native American Author Gabriel Horn on "Contemplations of a Primal Mind"
Abramoff Scandal Rocks Indian Country: Is There Going to be Permanent Damage as a Result?
Disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to almost five years in prison in a Miami case for wire fraud and conspiracy in a $147.5...

Oil Pipeline in Peru Ruptures a Fifth Time: How Amazon Indians are Being Burned
IDB, Peruvian Government and Amazon Pipeline Consortia Evade Questions and Criticism about Camisea Failures The major oil pipeline Camisea in Peru ruptured for a fifth time in 18 months, triggering a fire that injured local residents of the village of Echarate in the southern region of...

Abortion Ban in South Dakota Draws Native Opposition, and Indigenous Peoples' Demands for UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights Continue into 11th YearNative Women Unite in South Dakota to Fight Abortion Ban
Native American women are organizing at the grass-roots level to protest the bill that was recently signed by Governor Rounds of South...

Agreement Between Coastal Native Canadian Nations, Loggers and Environmentalists Protects Sacred Forest
The New York Times reports that a coalition of Native Americans, loggers and environmentalists have announced an agreement that will protect the Great Bear Rain Forest, home to sacred sites for the Gitga'at in British Columbia. The article reports "The process has...

Confronting Myths: From the Legend of Pocahontas to the Discourse on PalestineLouisiana's Coastal Tribes Appeal For Help In southern Louisiana, leaders of four coastal Native American tribes, the Bayou Lafourche, Grand Caillou/Dulac, Isle de Jean...

Indigenous Environmental Network Director Charges Bush Administration With Crimes Against Humanity; A Discussion With Charmaine Whiteface, Defender of the Black HillsIndigenous People Demand an End to the Bush Administration's Human Rights Violations We speak with an...

Homeless for Over a Century, a Tribe Awaits U.S. Redemption
Here is an article that describes one tribe's struggle for federal recognition, highlighting the history of U.S. land theft that displaced the tribe and left them marginalized. The article also provides a good outline of how the the recognition process unfolds, including its shortcomings and inadequacies,...

Here are today's guests:
* Marijo Moore, Author and former commentator on First Voices Indigenous Radio, speaks about her new book called "Confessions of a Madwoman": go to her web site www.marijomoore.com.
* Leslye Abbey, social worker and independent filmmaker, she is screening a...

News on Colombia from Mario Murillo and Maori Music
We speak with Nicholas Przybyla, veteran of Operation: Enduring Freedom and East Timor and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Nicholas Przybyla speaks about the new documentary film, which he helped produce, Operation: Veteran Freedom. The film chronicles the...

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INDIGENOUS NEWS: South African Government Charged With Ignoring Indigenous Needs.
A United Nations expert on Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, has called for the South African government to improve efforts to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples. During a 12 day visit, Stavenhagen met with government officials and representatives of Indigenous...

July 15, 2005 Show
The struggle to end the racist practice of using Indian mascots is looked at with the history of the word "Redskins." What are the origins and how has the word been used?
Beverly Jacobs is the President of the Native Women's Association in Canada, and tells us about the gendered and racialized forms of violence and oppression Native women...

Ponca v. Carbon Black Company
"The Continental Carbon Company has exhibited a callous disregard towards the Ponca Tribe of Indians and our people by continuing to pollute our people, our lands, and our air. The Ponca Tribe was forced to take this land at gunpoint by the government, and now it is all we have left," Ponca Tribal Chairman Dwight Buffalohead said in a...

Navajo Uranium Mining Ban Under Scrutiny
On Friday, April 30th President Joe Shirley Jr. signed an agreement to ban uranium mining and processing on Navajo lands. The Dine Natural Resources Protection Act was first approved by the Dine council by a vote of 63-19 and the ban enjoys widespread support on the reservation.
"I don't want to subject any more of...

Gracie Horne announces the World Peace and Prayer Day 2005 at Paha Sapa, known to many people as the Black Hills, South Dakota. Sounds like it'll be a great time. This event is on June 21, and will be preceded by the Prayer Run for World Peace, which begins on May 15 and ends on June 15 in Piedmont, South Dakota....

Navajo Nation Council Bans Uranium Mining
April 4, 2005, Editors Report/Indian Country Today
Uranium mining has been a health and environmental scourge, and yet an economic engine as well at Navajo. For some 50 years, Navajo have lived with the effects of thousands of open pit mines, many left unredeemed after decades of exposure. But health and life issues...

Peru Plans Reserve for Isolated Indigenous Group
The Peruvian government has created a commission that is in the early stages of designing plans for a reserve for the Mashco-Piro Indigenous group, one of 11 Indigenous groups living in voluntary isolation in the Peruvian Amazon. There is no reliable data on the Mashco-Piro, but there are estimates that there are 800...

Indigenous Environmental Network makes a statement at the 13th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development
The Commission on Sustainable Development 13 Negotiations Lack an Ethical Framework for the Cultural Manifestations of Water Water is Life: the recognition, as a guiding principle, that 'water connects and regulates planet earth as the sacred mat of...